Uses contemporary documents to explore the Industrial Revolution.
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Destitute English parents sent their children up to the age of 21 out to work for the parish in exchange for financial support. A parent could also apprentice their child for seven years to a master or entrepreneur.
... industrial revolution In 1944 Eric Williams's book Capitalism and Slavery broke new ground in sustaining, an analysis of the use of slave labour in terms of its profitability and in attributing to the slave system and slave trade a ...
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Cole, W.A. (1973) “Eighteenth-Century Economic Growth Revisited', Explorations in Economic History (Sum.). Cole, W.A. (1981) 'Factors in Demand, 1700–80°, in R. Floud and D.N. McCloskey (eds), The Economic History of England Since 1700 ...
Bryan, William Jennings | The debate quickly assumed huge political proportions. Advocates of a single gold standard rallied to the Republican Party, which enjoyed considerable support within the business and banking communities.
James A. Ward, Railroads and the Character of America, 1820–1887. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986, p. 14. 30. Frederick Merk, History of the Westward Movement. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978, p. 202. 31.
Baptist, Edward E., Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of Modern American Capitalism (New York 2014). Barker, T. C., R. Dickinson and D. W. F. Hardie, 'The origins of the synthetic alkali industry in Britain'.
The major problem with this view is that this puts a lot of strain on velocity (a number often thought to be tied to payments habits), which must accelerate and decelerate with the rate of inflation (not the price level) for this to be ...
625–58. Jane Humphries, Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution, Cambridge, 2010. Robert W. Fogel, The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700– 2100, Cambridge, 2004. Angus Deaton, The Great Escape: Health, ...
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Before the Industrial Revolution it was not possible to produce enough of the same item to have a brand, but in 100 years the world changed from make-your-own everything to a society of manufactured goods.
The British Industrial Revolution has long been seen as the spark for modern, global industrialization and sustained economic growth. Indeed the origins of economic history, as a discipline, lie in...
2. Putnam's Monthly, “Statistics and Speculations Concerning the Pacific Railroad,” September 1853, p. 271. 3. ... Quoted in David M. Kennedy and Thomas Bailey, The American Spirit: U.S. History as Seen by Contemporaries, vol. II ...
During the Industrial Revolution, millions of Americans moved from farms to cities in search of work in new factories.
Examines the technological developments that brought about the great economic and social changes that came to be called the Industrial Revolution.
Horrible Jobs of the Industrial Revolution. Oxford, UK: Oxford Raintree, 2016. Despite improvements to many aspects of life, the Industrial Revolution also introduced negative changes, including the jobs detailed by this book.